New York · Nonprofit
THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY IN CAIRO
THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY IN CAIRO (New York) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,542,926 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($4,027,755). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $221M
- Funders on record
- 31
- Grants received
- $14M
- Net assets
- $1.1B
What The American University in Cairo does
Mission
The university is a premier english- language institution of higher learning. The university is committed to teaching and research of the highest caliber, and offers exceptional liberal arts and professional education in a cross-cultural environment. See schedule o.The American University in Cairo (auc) is a premier english-language institution of higher learning. The university is committed to teaching and research of the highest caliber, and offers exceptional liberal arts and professional education in a cross-cultural environment. Auc builds a culture of leadership, lifelong learning, continuing education and service among its graduates, and is dedicated to making significant contributions to egypt and the international community in diverse fields. Chartered and accredited in the united states and egypt, it is an independent, not-for-profit, equal-opportunity institution. Auc upholds the principles of academic freedom and is dedicated to excellence.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Academic degree programs to the ma, msc, and phd levels: the official academic enrollment figures for fy 2025 are taken on the first day of the fall semester. The total academic enrollment was 6,880 with 5,538 undergraduate students, 1,034 master's degree students, and 84 phd students. During fy 2025, 1,214 students completed undergraduate degree programs, 10 completed doctorate degrees, and 250 completed master's degree programs.
$130,712,027 spent$123,510,442 earned by the program77% of program spendingAdult and continuing education programs: during fy 2025, programs in the school of continuing education enrolled a total of 32,565 students. The school of business executive education (formerly the management center and the international executive education institute) enrolled a total of 4,805 students. The engineering services program enrolled a total of 4,618 students.
$21,910,612 spentof which $39,263,584 as grants$7,743,849 earned by the program13% of program spendingResearch and other sponsored activity programs: the office of sponsored programs reports that auc received grants and awards in the aggregate amount of $21,846,439 from outside sponsors during fy 2025 in support of research, training and public service projects. This includes 122 sponsored projects averaging over $179,069 per project. In addition to the many and varied faculty research projects, the university conducts research projects through a number of 12 research centers.
$7,560,159 spent4% of program spendingOther program servicesauxiliary enterprises (auc book store, press, transportation, and student housing): the auc press publishes annually up to 35 wide-ranging academic texts and general interest books on ancient and modern egypt and the middle east, as well as arabic literature in translation, for distribution worldwide, and maintains a backlist of more than 1,172 high-quality scholarly, literary, and general interest publications, including e-books. Through its bookstores and distributors in egypt and abroad, the auc press sold more than 105,000 books in fy 2025 and licenses foreign editions of arab writers in 40 languages, including the works of the late egyptian nobel laureate naguib mahfouz, and international bestseller alaa al aswany. The student housing facilities accommodate auc students in new cairo campus housing. During fy 2025, auc student resident facilities accommodated 717 students.
$8,990,355 spent$3,841,041 earned by the program5% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $169,173,153.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $1.1B to $1.0B (−11%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 4% · 2018 3% · 2019 5% · 2020 7% · 2021 8% · 2022 11% · 2023 13% · 2024 16% · 2025 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
32% of THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY IN CAIRO’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (14% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $528k → $1.2M.
10 of 31 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 67% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY IN CAIRO’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 31 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY IN CAIRO leans on a few funders — its largest provides 30% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
69% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY IN CAIRO.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 61% · 2018 33% · 2019 75% · 2020 51% · 2021 56% · 2022 48% · 2023 38% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
48% of THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY IN CAIRO's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 74% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
67% of THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY IN CAIRO's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $4.4M that is directly attributable, 60% of it comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $9.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY IN CAIRO holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 679 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 679 education nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY IN CAIRO receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $271.7M on record.
- Agency for International Development$223.8M
- Department of State$46.0M
- Department of Health and Human Services$1.9M
- Department of Agriculture$39k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY IN CAIRO
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
75%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Univ Educational Endowment Fund Inv Corp · corp_trust
- Gleaming for Total Facility Management · corp_trust
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY IN CAIRO?
- THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY IN CAIRO (New York) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,542,926 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($4,027,755). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY IN CAIRO have?
- IRS filings report 31 organizations giving $13,542,926 in grants to THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY IN CAIRO, 23 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY IN CAIRO?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $4,027,755 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY IN CAIRO find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 31 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing